At Easter 2021, while on an extended hiatus, I posted some musings on life, death and resurrection. Events since then make a revamped version of those musings appropriate. Every year many die from violence. Some shrug it off with uninformed excuses...
The ongoing appeal against an injunction blocking bauxite mining in an area covered by a 25-year Special Mining lease is being watched carefully by stakeholders in the industry, including the Government, employees, retirees, and community...
There was a time when The Gleaner referred to the top political parties in Jamaica, the People’s National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), as the gangs of Gordon House for good reason. The constantly fractious exchange in the House...
In 1976, one of the hottest, upmarket nightclubs on Knutsford Boulevard was the Jonkanoo Lounge in what used to be the multistorey Sheraton Hotel. One Wednesday night, I was travelling solo as I walked into the club. A very famous dance troupe was...
In October 2007, then Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Hon Bruce Golding, appointed a committee of nine persons, including myself and the late Rex Nettleford, to review the system of National Honours and Awards. Among the Terms of Reference was one...
So the owner of The Guardian issued a sincere apology for the newspaper’s founders’ role in transatlantic slavery. This wasn’t caprice. It came after extensive research into links between founder John Edward Taylor and slavery. According to The...
Human life is sacred, and every individual deserves an equal chance in life. We have a common desire: we all want to lead a free, fulfilling existence, with dignity, where our basic needs are met, with opportunities to advance and equal treatment...
Mexico welcomes the support of Caribbean countries in its lawsuit against gun manufacturers and distributors for damages caused by their facilitation of the illegal flow of guns into Mexico and the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region. On March...
“... A city should not merely draw men together in many varied activities, but should permit each person to find, near at hand, moments of seclusion and peace ... .” writes Lewis Mumford in The Culture of Cities. Seclusion and peace should become...
If I am in conversation with a group of youngsters that are trying to wind their early life through the world of paid employment and I say this, ‘The best boss to have in Jamaica is a person of Jamaican/Chinese extraction’, many may say that I have...
Now the budget debate is over, we can take a comprehensive overview of the entire process. The overwhelming impression each year is one of a political circus rather than any representative assessment of the estimates of expenditure. To begin with,...
TRANSFORMATION IS a process that collects its dues in time and effort, and the Government is transforming the Cornwall Regional Hospital. Therefore, with the necessary rescoping of work at the facility – not cost overruns, as some have said – has...
In January 2023, the Supreme Court of Judicature of Jamaica granted injunctive relief to nine claimants who requested that bauxite mining not continue in sections of St Ann and Trelawny until the constitutional case they had filed was heard,...
As impressive as the then unknown Senator Barack Obama’s speech in October of 2002 was, one would have had to be close to end-stage delusion to suggest that he would win the US presidency in 2008. Local political discussions and early conclusions...
So far (time of writing Wednesday) the Budget debate’s main feature was an unattractive contest for best Garveyite. Nigel Clarke started it. He produced a theatrical performance suggesting JLP loves Garvey/Garveyism more than PNP. Apparently, this...
On March 24 , the Walter Rodney Foundation will host the 20th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium, in Atlanta, Georgia, to mark another anniversary of the birth of Walter Rodney titled “Repairing Historical Injustices: An Amplified Call for Reparations...
At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, electric vehicles (EVs) accounted for 2.5 per cent of car sales worldwide, with over 2.2 million vehicles sold. The current estimation of the number of EVs on the road worldwide is about 16 million....
March 9 was commemorated as World Kidney Day under the theme “Kidney Health for All: Preparing for the unexpected, supporting the vulnerable!” It is critical to better improve our diet to keep our kidneys healthy and functioning. Kidneys are...
With the country reeling from the body blows by the recent upsets in the financial services sector, another mounting crisis looms from a recent Supreme Court ruling that restricts a bauxite mining company from achieving its projected targets. The...
The decision of Andrew Holness’ government to again postpone the local government election (LGE), constitutionally due in November 2020, is a significant factor in the current evolving Jamaican political landscape. Jamaica Labour Party government...
Tourism has the potential to transform the lives of a significant number of Jamaicans because of its linkage to other industries. A responsible government works to ensure that policies are in place to facilitate real transformation. Jamaica’s...
Presidential and legislative polls were recently conducted in Nigeria under very difficult circumstances. A botched change of currency that prevented depositors withdrawing their funds demonstrated yet again the rank incompetence and callous...
After clumsy initial communications between the Government and the Jamaica Teachers’ Association, (JTA), the parties have come to a stalemate. The minister of finance threw down the gauntlet: $12 billion, take it or leave it. Sixty per cent of the...
I have a friend, a math professor, who tells me that he once instructed Nigel Clarke when he was studying financial mathematics. “Looking back, what stands out is his burning ambition, not just to do well at university, but to attain something...
It seems Nigel Clarke sees media coverage of the SSL fraud saga as undeserved adverse comment on his stewardship of the financial sector. Why do I say this? Well, he wrote a Gleaner Op-Ed piece (January 28) and, in opening the Budget Debate,...
